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Identification badge
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45741
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Identification badge : Yellow, Black
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Identification badge : Yellow, Black
- Other Title Information
- Personal Symbol
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Serbo-Croatian
- Notes
- Circular badge with raised edges. Narrative: By 30 April 1941, all Jews in Croatia were ordered by the Ustaše government to wear this badge. Donor was exempt, because his mother was Christian. The Svarc (Schwarz) family were liberated by Yugoslav partisans in Zagreb 1944. After the war, Dr. Djuro Svarc (born in Koprivnica) kept it, then gave it to his son Emile, who brought it to Canada.
- Accession No.
- 1981.01.01
- Name Access
- Svarc, Emile
- Places
- Zagreb, Croatia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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Sock
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45742
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Sock : woven, knitted, sewn, machine, embroidered : grey, beige, blue, orange, pink
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Sock : woven, knitted, sewn, machine, embroidered : grey, beige, blue, orange, pink
- Other Title Information
- Clothing, Footwear
- Date
- 1939-1943
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Grey socks with beige stripes and tops. Embroidered detailing and reinforcement is found along the sole and heels. Socks worn in hiding in Zagreb. Narrative: Donor's father was in camp in Croatia, but was released due to the efforts of his wife who was not Jewish. She managed to influence a policeman to release her husband. He then went to Zagreb and remained in hiding there, during which time he wore and mended these socks. Socks worn in hiding in Zagreb.
- Accession No.
- 1981.01.02-03
- Name Access
- Svarc, Emile
- Places
- Zagreb, Croatia, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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